Not that this is a good idea, since at best what alien food probably would be edible but without much nutritional value, and at worst would be really toxic.

“The star 47 UMa is a yellow G0V star very similar to the Sun, probably about seven billion years old and located about 51 light years from Earth. Fischer noted that the so-called habitable zone around the star -a region approximately equivalent to that between the orbits of Venus and Mars in our solar system, an area that includes Earth – is devoid of large gaseous planets. This means it potentially could harbor an Earth-sized rock we can’t yet see, and won’t be able to see until NASA launches the next generation of planet hunting missions from space.

Based on dynamical computer simulations by Laughlin, Fischer cautioned that ” it could be difficult for an Earth-mass terrestrial planet to form in a stable orbit within that habitable zone” because of the proximity of the two outer gas giants.”

Source : Press release via the 47 Ursae Majoris link at the top of this page : http://exoplanets.org/esp/47uma/47uma_announceframe.html

“If the two jovians of 47 UMa are in 2 and 3.7 AU orbits, isn’t that going to play havoc with the stability of obits for inner planets? Might it even have prevented the formation of anything bigger than Ceres?”

Perhaps, although I don’t think we can be 100 % sure, it seems that’s likely.

The ‘habitable zone’ (HZ) around 47 Ursae Majoris would also be further out and thus more likely in that danger given that stars brighter, hotter and larger than ours – a G0 yellow dwarf star with 1.1 solar masses and is possibly, I think a bit younger than our Sun and thus less likely tohave evolved intelligent species anyway. Let’s hope.

Whatever the case I agree with those who would say this is avery dumb thing to be doing – & I hope nobody else copies it because otherwise we’re giving our solar system a very bad name!

Therefore I suggest we all boycott those chips – & tell them why! ;-P